Well, next week begins Lance Armstrong's final Tour De France. We're pretty psyched up for it and hope that he turns in a terrific performance. OK - we hope he does win the course overall! Get the scoop on The Paceline or follow Lance on The Discovery Channel.
Heeeeeee's Baaaa-aacccckkkk!
I wanted to post some screenshots of the kids in two separate performances.
Here are the links to download the performances:
1. Minnie's performance of "Four Leaf Clover": http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2IDTCTQCOWKVC0NSEL1N0XSINY
2. Anita's performance of another version of the ABC song with sign language! http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1RCWAGZ9MZM4D0SBJXHRXFGBV9
They are 28 MB .MOV files and can be viewed using QuickTime. One of the songs Miinnie's class sang was "Four Leaf Clover." Yummers' class performed "A You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)." 
Screenshot of Minnie's performance: "Four Leaf Clover"
Another screenshot of Minnie and class at the end of "Four Leaf Clover"
Eric, Cydney, Nick V and Anita doing the "A You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)."
I recently read an article online that implied that there might be an original undiscovered da Vinci. How exciting! :O) Leonardo da Vinci was a very unique and talented individual who was many years ahead of his time. Wouldn't it be exciting to find it? What a breath of freshness and surprise. FYI ... I found several really good websites about him that I'd like to share.
* http://www.mos.org/leonardo/
* http://www.leonardo.net/main.html
* http://www.leonet.it/comuni/vinci/
A possible clue in the search for the missing da Vinci?
Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out of there! :O) We took Goong Goong to Shangri-La Restaurant for a pretty tasty dim sum lunch. My mom was there as was Tien, Fai, Robin and his friend Davin. Yummers tried to eat a squid ... unfortunately, it was too spicy due to the curry. Oh well! :O)
You can't see it in the picture below, but Tien bought my dad this killer Lacoste T-shirt for $ 5.00 from Plato's Closet. Pretty darn cool!
Minnie, Goong Goong and Yummers at Shangri-La
I thought I would share some published quotes from Anita in the school yearbook. Enjoy!
Christmas 2004 Quote in Academic Gardens yearbook from Anita
The first half of the quote of the 2005 Academic Gardens yearbook attributed to Anita
Anita officially finished her last day as a Kindergardener at Academic Gardens today. She will be a first grader at Farrand Elementary School in the Fall. We recently went there with Yummers for lunch and had an invigorating conversation with Principal Kuhn and a tour of the school, classrooms and facilities. We're pretty excited about the various programs and active Parents Teacher Organisation (that we will be involved in ... of course).
In the meantime, she and Minnie will be going to Academic Gardens for Summer Camp. :O) If you'd like to check out some video that I took on the digital camera, please e-mail me. Some of it is REALLY cute! :O)
Funny faces at graduation!
Anita & Sean Pilon at Graduation Day!
We decided to take part in the Race for the Cure 5K Race / Walk in Detroit. It was a lot of fun and for a great cause. Michael and Robin did the Run while the kids and I did the walk. I also scored a TON of Silk Soy coupons... mmmmmm!
The event in Detroit alone attracted over 30,000 participants and raised $ 1.2 million. I will post after the race pictures at Harry's bar in Detroit where we had lunch and hung out with our friends from Jazzercise.
In Harry's parking lot ... warming up before the Race!
This came into my in box a few minutes ago! I am so excited!!! I haven't seen them in over 10 years! I will post pictures of the last time I saw them in Detroit. They will be playing at St. Andrews. WOW! :O)
The kids and I decided to give Michael an afternoon by himself to catch up on some work. So, we went to the Taste of Ann Arbor festival in Ann Arbor. We had a great time. We found the BEST parking spot which happened to lead right into Main Street and the finish line for the Dexter-Ann Arbor run. The kids and I had a good time watching the last of the participants finish and enjoyed a yummy snack of bananas and oranges. It was amazing to see table after table of oranges, bananas, water, peanut butter, cream cheese and bagels. Wow! Well, we'll probably see more of this at the end of the Race for the Cure event we'll be participating in next Saturday.
Back to the festival ... we walked throughout the festival which was mostly on Main Street and browsed some of the nice stores that were there. We really had a swell time as you can see in some of the pictures below. :O) It was incredibly sunny and HOT (88 degrees) outside. Despite the weather, the kids had a great time. See the pictures below ... Enjoy!
Proof we were there! :O)
Guess who was the first to climb the rock wall?
There were bands ... 
Face painting ... 
and even a pig in a stroller!
